Teh irony! It burns!

Doug, If you think Creation Science is just junk or "ignorant", you should read Darwin's Black Box by Dr. Michael Behe (a molecular biochemist, not a Christian as far as I know) There are many other serious scientists that should be read regarding the Creation Science/Evolution debate. Evolution is a flawed theory that has been treated as fact. Perhaps, investigation over assumption is better. [Emphasis added.]

Well, Linda Lou, perhaps you should read it, because Behe writes right there toward the end of it that he is a Roman Catholic. So, perhaps investigation over assumption is indeed better.

Of course there is more than irony here: Evolution is not a (flawed) theory that is treated as fact. It is a theory that is treated as a theory (and it isn't flawed), and the fact of evolution is that evolution did and does occur.

Pleiotropy comes from the Greek πλείων pleion, meaning "more", and τρέπειν trepein, meaning "to turn, to convert". It designates the occurrence of a single gene affecting multiple traits, and is a hugely important concept in evolutionary biology.

I'm a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara.

All Many aspects of evolution interest me, but my research focus is currently on microbial evolution, adaptive radiation, speciation, fitness landscapes, epistasis, and the influence of genetic architecture on adaptation and speciation.